Well at least our elected officials can finally agree on SOMETHING... even though it is totally ridiculous, invasive, and solidly misleading...
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House Committee passes bill requiring your ISP to spy on every click and keystroke you make online and retain for 12 months
Yesterday, the House Judiciary Committee voted 19-10 for H.R. 1981, a data-retention bill that will require your ISP to spy on everything you do online and save records of it for 12 months. California Rep Zoe Lofgren, one of the Democrats who opposed the bill, called it a ?data bank of every digital act by every American? that would ?let us find out where every single American visited Web sites.? Here?s commentary from the Electronic Frontier Foundation, who?ve got a form for contacting your rep to ask her or him to kill this:
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